He grew quiet.
I did too.
Impasse.
Bloody hell!
Carling broke it.
“We’ll work together.”
I felt my face beaming.
He grew stern.
“Milady, I won’t do this if you don’t have a mind that Iknow what I’m doing…and you don’t.”
I sat forward on my seat.“Oh, I’ll have a mind.I promise.”
He studied me.
And then he shared, “When your father would need someinformation, he’d send the hall boy with a note and the appropriate coin tosome urchins in the Quarter.They would see to it that the request in that notewas disseminated as it needed to be.We have your father’s stationery, though Iassume everyone knows his current condition.That matters not.I’ll sign thenotes in his stead.Anyone will think I’m acting on his behalf.”
Excellent!
However…
“Why would my father do this?”
Carling shrugged.“To learn what ships were docking in whatports in what cities and know what they’re carrying.To understand what waslost in a warehouse fire inVasterhaguebefore anyoneelse heard that word.”He took a breath, held my gaze, and continued, “To seeto it that a rival took a fall or perhaps drank a hint of poison that might notkill him, but would make him sick, so milord could manipulate his dealings in amanner that was lucrative for himself, and the clients he’d guided to or awayfrom these industries.”
In other words, Edgar Dawes was an evenbiggerpiece of shit than we already knew he was.
“Right,” I whispered.
“We have one issue, milady,” Carling said.
“And that is?”
“Lord Remington’s guards are still here.And last night,another was added who, if I understood his movements correctly, his brief is tobe an extra set of eyes on the alley, the street and the park.”
Yep.
There it was.
Carling didn’t miss anything.
And yep.
My man liked me a whole lot and went all out to keep me andmy family safe.
“It would seem my fiancé has an adversary he’s takingseriously, and as such, it would seem our assistance is all the more urgent,” Iremarked.“Although, I don’t know why the guards are a problem.”
“Some informants approach the house.It is rare, but ithappens.And they will be sure to note your guard, and not approach.”
“I see,” I mumbled.
“We will share in our missive that we’ll set a meetingplace, should someone have something they wish to say, and they are not toapproach the house.”
